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NEWBURGH, Staffordshire. Convention between the abbot and convent of Lilleshull of one part, and Edelina the daughter of Durand the priest of the other, by which the said Edelina in her widowhood gives to the said abbot and convent two messuages in Newburgh, viz. those which her father bought and gave to her. For this grant the said abbot and convent will provide her with 4s. annuity, and two of the servants' loaves and a gallon of beer daily during her life, with a condition that if Roger, son of Stephen her son, outlives her, the rent of 4s. is to be paid to him and to revert to the abbey after his death, (c. 1180-90.) .